John Wilhelm
John Wilhelm
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We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,
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Our efforts to make real changes at the AFL-CIO have ended, but our board vote today was done with no ill will towards any member union of the AFL-CIO. UNITE HERE remains committed to working with any union and community organization at local, state, national and international levels.
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Strikes are always a possibility. But we are not a strike-happy union. I look at strikes as a failure.
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It's not our intention to force a strike, unless the hotel employers leave us no choice.
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The only way to find out if an alternative road works is to set out in that direction. The only way to reverse the decline in living standards is for the labor movement to be bigger and stronger.